A Unifying Framework for Evaluating the Predictive Power of Genetic Variants Based on the Level of Heritability Explained

Hon-Cheong So; Pak C. Sham

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1001230

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A Unifying Framework for Evaluating the Predictive Power of Genetic Variants Based on the Level of Heritability Explained

Hon-Cheong So,

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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Pak C. Sham

* E-mail: pcsham@hku.hk

Affiliations Department of Psychiatry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, Genome Research Centre, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China, State Key Laboratory of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
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A Unifying Framework for Evaluating the Predictive Power of Genetic Variants Based on the Level of Heritability Explained

Hon-Cheong So,
Pak C. Sham

Published: December 2, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1001230

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What does the title mean?

Posted by telnet on 04 Jan 2011 at 17:42 GMT

Even after reading the Abstract and Summary I remain slightly confused by the title of this work. Please can someone enlighten me as to the meaning of "the Level of Heritability Explained."

The title would seem to make perfect sense without the word 'explained' at the end.

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